Politics: Ole Frank

"How long, oh how long, America?" cried Tennessee's Democratic
Governor Frank Clement, most eminent alumnus of Mrs. Dockie
Shipp Weems's School of Expression in Nashville, in his corn-filled
keynote speech to the 1956 Democratic National Convention. For
Frank Clement's political future, it soon began to appear that how
long would not be very: Clement left the governor's mansion in 1959,
practiced law in Nashville and receded into an unwonted silence.

But last week it became clear that Tennessee would hear more
from Clement−lots more. At age 42, he made a political
comeback by...